JOB DESCRIPTION

This post is the central support and lead for crisis management and Business Continuity for the organisation, providing direction on continuity measures and activity as well as administrative support during a crisis.
There are three key areas that the post provides enterprise level support and analysis on, Business Continuity, Incident Management, and Crisis Management.
Business Continuity at the strategic level requires setting of the strategy and approach to continuity for the organisation, outlining requirements for exercising, undertaking lessons learned, leading on strategic exercises, advising the organisation on Business Continuity developments and compliance and assurance with JSP 503 Defence Manual of Resilience and British Standards.
Crisis Management at the strategic level requires setting of the Crisis Management Strategy, including the outline of Gold Command, testing, acting as lead administrative oversight during a crisis, manning the Emergency Advice Line, and leading on lessons learned activity following the closure of the crisis.
Incident Management at the strategic level involves analysis over incidents to identify any trends, supporting black swan data sharing with the Enterprise Risk Lead, identification and review of controls where incidents occur regularly to understand root cause and how this can be addressed, ensuring reporting of incidents that fall outside of the Functional area reporting tools (e.g. security, safety, IT) are captured in business area risk registers. This role does not lead on resolution of incidents in an incident management capacity, these are covered by the appropriate business and Functional areas as stipulated in policies.
This role also currently oversees the Operational Performance & Planning Tool and process, including the input of data from reporting areas, provision of secretariat capability from within the team to the Delivery Working Group, and a weekly service line narrative to the Chief Operating Officer.

EXPERIENCE:

• CV
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NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

Open to UK nationals only.

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